What WSJ Canada Is Reading Thursday

Egypt’s new interim president swore the oath of office in front of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court after a whirlwind insurrection that brought millions of Egyptians onto the streets and overturned an Islamist president who only days ago had seemed immutable.

A long battle between truck drivers and federal regulators is culminating in giving truckers something that many don’t want: More sleep.

Warren Buffett is fond of saying that “you never know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out.” Well, when interest rates start to climb, Toronto’s condominium investors might get a lesson in the perils of skinny dipping, writes economist Sheryl King. We’re also reading about the latest data on the city’s home prices.

“Things are just so wrong in the country now,” says rock singer and guns-rights advocate Ted Nugent, considering a run for president in 2016. “And I know that my answers would make things wonderful, unless you just refuse to produce, and then I’d recommend that you move to Canada. Or Illinois.”

For a traveler who can spend hours savoring stacks and shelves of books, Toronto is a kind of Shangri-La.

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